The Mongol cavalry roamed the wilderness like a cloud, many of them Mongol horses and many of them tall Arabian horses. The team came to a stop on a high post.

Marshal Boyan rode a snow-white Arabian horse, and the red Maltese cross on the white cloak was very bright. Restraining the horses and looking down condescendingly, he saw that the Mongol cavalry had besieged a group of Song people. According to the intelligence, this group of Song people stationed in Constantinople was preparing to retreat back to the Song State, and when they set out, they did not know that all the Song people in the Song port at the northern end of the Red Sea were evacuated, and they could only turn around and return after discovering it. It happened to be blocked by Mongolia.

Even though they were pinned down by the Mongol cavalry, this group of Song people still stubbornly retreated north in the previous time. If it weren't for the belief that there were people among these people who knew how to prevent the epidemic, the Mongolian cavalry would have killed them all a long time ago. This place is still twenty miles away from the Mediterranean Sea, and walking here on two legs under the scorching sun, the efforts of the Song people have also reached the limit. Mongol reinforcements with muskets and artillery stopped in front of them. With the overwhelming firepower superiority of the artillery, any breakthrough or entrenchment was only a dead end.

At this time, in the Great Song team, Yang calmly looked firm, and he said in a hoarse voice: "We must not deviate from morality." At this time, if everyone disperses, the Mongols will definitely not let us go. As before, we sent people to follow the Mongols, in exchange for the Mongols so that others could go back. ”

Everyone in the Da Song team looked ugly. At this time, there is only a little drinking water left, and the water will be completely cut off the day after tomorrow at the latest, and the situation is really irreparable.

The instructor's voice was quite calm, "Are you sure that the Mongolians will not let the epidemic prevention people go?" ”

"Since Mongolians know about hygiene and epidemic prevention, they must know that they themselves don't know how to prevent epidemics. So let's just keep a few people. I will stay. But I am not enough alone, the Mongols will not believe it, and some people are needed. Yang calmly replied simply.

"What if the Mongols lied to us?" One of the captains said in despair.

Yang calmly shook his head, "Mongolians really need epidemic prevention, and we have the capital to be able to negotiate with Mongolia." If the Mongols don't let us go, we can only fight the Mongols here to the death. Don't be mistaken, if the Mongols see our infighting, they will not negotiate with us. If everyone thinks that they can be fooled by pretending to understand hygiene and epidemic prevention, how will they deal with it when Mongolia sees the clues? Only if we are not afraid of death can we make the Mongols give in. ”

Everyone who came here from the Great Song Dynasty was not for death, many people were for more money, and many people were for the future. At least until this march, everyone felt that life was not too hard. Now when they heard that they were going to use their lives as bargaining chips with the Mongols, everyone's expressions were so ugly and ugly.

At this time, I heard the instructor follow and say: "Now everyone feels cornered and is going to die." It's just a worry, as long as we stick together, we can all survive. ”

The captain of the third team could no longer bear any longer, and he shouted: "You surrendered to the Mongols, of course you will survive." And then let us die? ”

This guy has a hoarse voice and looks extremely excited. However, at this time, everyone's voices were hoarse, and this captain was not a particularly unique one. The instructor sneered, "Hehe." You're the one who can do anything to survive. You haven't listened to anything after talking about it for so long. Those who stay are going to exchange themselves for everyone's livelihood, and if you don't mind, I can put you on the list of those who stay. ”

At this time, everyone felt that the captain of the third team was a little foolish, and everyone ignored him. But the captain of the third team jumped so high that he pointed at everyone and scolded, "You turtle grandsons who betray the country and seek glory!" If you want to exchange everyone's lives for yours, don't even think about it. ”

"This guy is crazy, tie him up." The path of the instructor's disgust.

Everyone rushed up and tied up this really abnormal-looking guy. This guy still shouted unrelentingly, and everyone covered his mouth, so that it was better.

Not long after, Yang Congrong and the other two went to negotiate with the Mongols. The instructor wanted to go together, but he was afraid that something would happen in the camp, so he had to stay.

Yang Congrong was not afraid. Everything he could have done had already been done. At this time, negotiation is probably the best way, as long as people can return to Constantinople, everyone will have the opportunity to return to the Great Song Dynasty. Back then, Su Wu had been shepherding sheep for more than ten years, and the Han could still ask people to go back. If the Great Song Dynasty officials knew about the brave behavior of Yang Congrong and others, they would also work hard for them.

What's more important is that Yang Congrong also wants to live, but if he doesn't take reasonable measures, the Mongols probably won't let Yang Congrong and them survive. Seeing with his own eyes how the Mongols killed the Egyptians, Yang calmly understood what the Mongols would do with the useless.

After being searched, Yang Congrong passed through questioning first, and was brought to a man with a white horse and white robe not long after. Yang calmly looked at the man's Da Song-style cotton clothes, and guessed the identity of this man.

"I heard you're going to surrender?" The white-robed man asked.

"It's not surrender. I wanted to help Mongolia with hygiene and epidemic prevention in exchange for our companions to leave. Yang replied calmly.

It was the Marshal of Boyan who was questioned, and now he had been crowned King of Alexander, with a fief in Alexandria, Egypt. Kublai Khan did not want to divide Egypt so quickly, which was also Boyan's suggestion. The banks of the Nile are well-known agricultural areas, which cannot be governed by the methods of the grasslands.

The plague is now raging in the territory of the Great Marshal Boyan, and there is also an epidemic of plague at the southern tip of the Arabian Peninsula controlled by the Mongols. Although there is no plague epidemic in Baghdad, where the Great Khan's Golden Horde is located, there are many other infectious diseases. Boyan heard that the Song people in front of him said that he understood hygiene and epidemic prevention, and his heart was a little relaxed. After Zhao Jiaren came to power, the Mongolian royal court received news every year that Zhao Jiaren would hold a patriotic health month. In the Patriotic Health Month, we will talk about epidemic prevention knowledge and organize mosquito killing. The slogan changed from year to year, for example, the original slogan was 'Eradicate Smallpox'. Then it was 'war on cholera', then 'all in one against diphtheria'. Under such a slogan, the plague in the Great Song Dynasty is really getting less and less.

Thinking of this, Boyan Dashuai said indifferently: "How do I know that you are not lying to me?" If we besiege it for a few more days, and you run out of water, you will surely surrender to us. ”

"Someone in our team just took the belongings of the plague dead, and dozens of people died. I saw it with my own eyes. Yang said calmly.

Boyan Dashuai didn't say anything, just looked at Yang Congrong with flat eyes, and didn't even say 'then'.

Yang Congrong continued: "I didn't see a plague epidemic for more than ten years when I was in the Great Song Dynasty, so I inevitably felt that the plague was nothing big. Now I know that the plague is really powerful. You Mongolians could have left the sick people behind at once and fled thousands of miles away. Can you still do that now? If you think it's okay, then I'll say nothing. If you want to have a fixed city like the Great Song Dynasty, you will not be able to miss any of the troubles that the Great Song Dynasty has experienced. ”

Boyan didn't expect that this guy on the other side could still say a reason, and the reason he said was still a very knowledgeable reason. I didn't expect this guy to dare to faintly threaten Boyan. Marshal Boyan responded indifferently, "Listen to what you said, you know how to prevent epidemics." ”

Hearing that Boyan was also threatening, Yang Congrong was not afraid that Boyan would detain him now. He had already thought of this situation, as a talent who could be sent out of the Ministry of Rites, Yang Congrong was not as good as diplomatically, and he replied without expression: "My Da Song is Hangzhou, there are hundreds of officials and cadres who specialize in epidemic prevention in the city of Hangzhou alone, and there are thousands of doctors in various hospitals. In the past ten years, Hangzhou Medical College has now graduated thousands of doctors every year, and now there are tens of thousands of doctors. My Great Song Dynasty was able to eradicate the plague by relying on hundreds of thousands of talents. If only a few of us are arrested, it will be a drop in the bucket. If it's not useless, it's of limited use. ”

"Are you asking me to detain you all?"

"There are a lot of people in our team who don't know how to prevent the epidemic at all, and it's useless for you to detain them. Let them go, and those of us who remain will try to help Mongolia. ”

"You put it is not that there will be only a few people of limited use."

"It's better to have a few people who really help you than nothing."

“…… If I have to detain someone. ”

"We're just going to fight to the death. Even if they are captured, they will not do everything they can to help. ”

The conversation between Yang Congrong and Boyan Dashuai angered the general next to him, and a guy stepped forward and scolded: "You Nanban are all dogs, what else can you do besides playing conspiracy?" ”

After listening to this, Yang calmly felt furious in his heart, and immediately replied: "We really don't have the ability, if we really have the ability, where will we let you run here!" ”

This kind of talk is really too literati, although I want to punish my heart, but I have gone through several logics. The one who scolded on the other side had not received training in this area, and his face was dazed, obviously not understanding what Yang Congrong was talking about.

Marshal Boyan understood Yang Congrong's great ridicule, but he was not moved at all. Da Shuai pondered for a moment, and then asked, "How many of you know about epidemic prevention." ”

"Seven." Yang replied calmly.

"Are you willing to trade your lives for other people's lives?"

"Send them to the seashore and get them on board. Those we leave behind will help Mongolia. ”

"You go back first." Marshal Boyan did not give a conclusion.

Yang Congrong was a little disappointed, the white-robed general opposite was deeply thoughtful, and his emotions were not affected by the outside world at all, and he was an extremely difficult person to deal with in diplomatic situations. But they did not know that there were such figures among the Mongols.

After walking out for a while, I suddenly heard someone in the distance behind me start scolding. I couldn't understand what the man was scolding, but the voice seemed to be the one that popped out to curse before. It may be that he only now understands Yang Congrong's previous mockery. Yang calmly smiled bitterly in his heart, the level of this Mongolian is what he thinks a Mongolian should be in his heart.

Boyan was not in a hurry. He agrees with Yang Congrong's insights and views. However, Marshal Boyan has seen so many precedents of physically tortured people who have changed their attitudes, and he is ready to delay it. If you don't have water to drink, you won't be able to die in two or three days. After such torture, perhaps all the Song people would surrender.

A day passed, Boyan ordered the Mongol cavalry to feint, and the Song people immediately returned fire with muskets. On this day, the Mongol army harassed more than a dozen times, and the Song people were always able to resist.

The next day, the Mongol army harassed more than a dozen times, but the Song people still held on. Looking at the density of their firepower, the number of Song people who can fight is at least a few dozen.

Day 3, Day 4, Day 5. The Mongol army was tempting every day, and the Song people were resisting every day. If it was a war, the Mongol army could have gone straight in. Now there are people in the Song people who Mongolia wants, and they rush in to cut and kill people who shouldn't be killed.

"Marshal, there is a plague in our army!"

Hearing the news, Boyan Dashuai sighed in his heart. The luck of those Song people is really good. If there was no such news, Marshal Boyan was ready to return to Jerusalem first, and let the Song people hold on under the sun. However, there were already people on the side of the Mongol army who had been hit by the plague, and Marshal Boyan could only fight quickly.

Soon, Mongol envoys appeared outside the place where the Song army was strong. Not much, Yang Congrong, who was dirty all over his body, also came out to meet him.

"Our general is complimenting your request."

"How can we make sure he didn't lie to us?"

"Our general said that he would swear by arrows with you, do you believe it?"

"Let's go to the beach first."

The next morning, a group of dirty and dry Song people finally arrived at the edge of the Mediterranean. Nineteen days have passed since their departure. For nineteen days, they had experienced pestilence, fighting, thirst, hunger, and now they had almost nothing but weapons in their hands.

In the distance, the handsome Boyan looked at the Song people coldly. He dared to let the Song people come to the beach, not because of goodwill or loyalty to the oath. What can I do when I get to the beach, but I see a barrier that I can't cross at all. Are those people stumped to swim back to Constantinople? If they don't have that ability, they can only go through the Mongolian territory. Marshal Boyan could keep the agreement, but the other Mongol generals had no reason to keep it.

Yang Congrong did not go to see the Mongol army, and after leaving the entrenched camp, the Song team could only gamble on luck. Bet on how much the Mongols were afraid of the plague. Now it looks like they've won the bet. And the last gamble is about to begin.

The Da Song team removed the last luggage from the cart, and the rest of the belongings were either used up or thrown away in the final camp. The captains gathered around uneasily, and one of them had already moistened his throat with seawater, and he reluctantly asked, "Is this thing easy to use?" ”

The instructor didn't drink seawater, but just washed his face. He didn't speak, just began to collect what could be burned by the sea.

They gathered some flammable materials and lit a bonfire. Although the smoke rises up close, the fire is small and inconspicuous. The crowd built a bigger fire, this time the fire was bigger, but it was nothing special. As far as the eye can see, there is no ship approaching at sea. At this time, the flames were fierce, and the instructor threw a bucket of objects into the fire, and soon a red smoke drifted up the air along the heat from the fire.

Seeing that things are not invalid, there is no need to speak, and people can't say anything because they are thirsty. The crowd threw flammable materials into the fire and smoke boxes into it.

If you want the smoke column to rise higher, you need more fuel. The things that could be used as fuel in the vicinity had been used closely, and the members of the Great Song team ran farther away, but they didn't expect the Mongol army to block them.

"What do you mean?"

"I can't let you run."

This dialogue fully reflects the difficulties of the Mongols. Now everyone is in a hurry, but everyone can't be beaten with guns, thirsty and hungry for so long, hand-to-hand combat is even more impossible. In a hurry, Yang calmly took off his clothes and threw the clothes that were dry with body fat into the fire. Everyone followed suit, and now the fire was full and there was more smoke.

Boyan Dashuai looked at Yang Congrong's performance and sighed in his heart. After listening to Yang Congrong's previous description of the epidemic prevention personnel in the Great Song Dynasty, it was a huge number beyond Boyan's imagination. There were hundreds of thousands of doctors, and if there were so many doctors in Mongolia, Kublai Khan would probably be so happy that his mouth would not be able to close his mouth.

Now Boyan is even more strange, to what extent are there so many talents in the Great Song Dynasty that a guy like Yang Congrong can come to Eastern Rome. But Marshal Boyan quickly picked up his feelings, if Yang Congrong's actions failed to summon the ship, all he and these Song people were left was a pair of underwear. No matter how capable the previous move may seem, from the conclusion, all the effort is just part of the joke.

The fire gradually became smaller, and the Song people gradually lost their vitality. None of them could say anything at this time, and some of them were already sitting on the ground sobbing without tears. The water in their bodies is no longer enough to support the operation of the tear glands.

"Dashuai, a ship is coming!" The guards beside Boyan pointed warily at the sea.

Boyan's eyesight had already begun to deteriorate, and it took a while for him to make out that there was a ship at sea. The ship was obviously coming this way, and after a while, even Boyan could see that the flag of the Great Song Dynasty was flying on the ship. Those Song people went to great lengths to return to their starting point, and the ships with whom they had an agreement did not miss the appointment.

Not long after, Yang Congrong, who was only wearing underwear, and six other people arrived in front of the Mongolian army, "A few of us know how to prevent epidemics." ”

The Mongolian general looked at Yang Congrong with a very unfriendly expression, and then looked at the Song people who were already defenseless with even more unfriendly eyes. If you do it now, you can kill all the useless Song people, or you can kidnap the useful Song people. However, Marshal Boyan had a strict order for the Mongol army to abide by the agreement.

Reluctantly retracting his malicious gaze, the Mongolian army took Yang Congrong and the others away.

Yang Congrong had already tried to speak at this time, and he knew that he couldn't say anything. Looking back at those companions who were finally saved, Yang calmly prayed in his heart: You must bring my heroic deeds back to the Great Song Dynasty. So that I can be saved. Please!